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Definition of Babassu
1. Noun. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
Generic synonyms: Feather Palm
Group relationships: Genus Orbignya, Orbignya
Terms within: Babassu Nut
Definition of Babassu
1. Noun. a tall Brazilian feather palm, ''Orbignya barbosiana'', having hard-shelled nuts that yield an edible oil ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Babassu
1. a palm tree [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Babassu
Literary usage of Babassu
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Riches of the Forest: Fruits, Remedies and Handicrafts in Latin America by Citlalli López Binnqüist, Patricia Shanley, Alfredo Celso Fantini (2004)
"Nature is to thank for the combination of so many practical and useful functions
in this single plant. For more than a century, babassu palms ..."
2. Brazil Today and Tomorrow by Lilian Elwyn (Elliott) Joyce (1917)
"In Maranhao, where the babassu palm grows luxuriantly, a local industry extracts
the fine oil from the kernel hidden in a stony shell, and experimental ..."
3. Working North from Patagonia: Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on by Harry Alverson Franck (1921)
"Palms ranged from those of fern-like delicacy to the coco-babassu, shaped like
a gigantic feather- duster stood on end and producing a bunch six feet long ..."
4. Investing in Biological Diversity: The Cairns Conference : Proceedings of by OECD Staff (1997)
"... 53 Includes kermel, charcoal, and feed meal of Anderson et a!. (1991) Indonesia
babassu palm. Unclear if returns net or gross Combu Island, ..."
5. Vital Factors of Foods: Vitamins and Nutrition by Carleton Ellis, Annie Louise Macleod (1922)
"... have no preventive action against rickets are: Separator milk, bread, protein
of meat, yeast, linseed and babassu oils, and certain hydrogenated fats. ..."
6. Priorities for Forestry and Agroforestry Policy Research: Report on an by H. M. Gregersen, Peter Oram, John Spears (1992)
"babassu palm in the agroforestry systems in Brazil's mid-north region. Agroforestry
Systems 3 (39). Page, J., and W. Steel. 1984. ..."
7. Current Issues in Non-timber Forest Products Research: Proceedings of the by J. E. Michael Arnold, Manuel Ruiz Pérez (1996)
"The economic utilisation of the babassu Palm: a conservation strategy for sustaining
tropical forest resources. Journal of the Washington Academy of ..."
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